linux-kernel - Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:20:33 -0500
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
Cc:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote:
>[...]
>
>>Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to
>>generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and
>>include it.
>
>Bingo!  Thanks Robert, I'll try it again with that line commented.  I wasn't
>aware of that connection at all.  Yup, it worked, I feel a reboot coming
>on. :)

But it didn't work, apparently commenting that line out needs to be balanced 
by adding another line telling it amd74xx is the 'hostadapter', not 
necessarily scsi.

Can this be made more universal so I don't have to edit /etc/modprobe.conf?

Thanks.

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